AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1490, 19 November 1874, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

The Government has paid Sritish officials the full amount of the indemnity awarded by the Mexican Commission.

Brigham Yonng is daugerously ill Surdmanand Co., sugar merchant;of Ifer York, have failed. A terrible riot occurred in ttii*&jitli aM South of Ireland (?) between labwaets ou the Delaware railway. Many, were jnjwai. The Government have arikngauoraftimonthly mail between Cah'fop*.arid CMm. William Ewarts is spoken of as the most likely candidate for the Presitohip of America. , ( v The American riflemen bsat Rigby's Irish team. . ; Masked burglars robbed the Pensylvaman banks, Philadelphia, having first gagged tffii president and cashier. ' The Customhouse and eight dwellings at' Brugos w ere swept away by a tornado. Negro disturbances prevailed in the Sonta Western States. The yellow fever is raging at Pensacoli A man named Salmon threw himselr o* Niagara falls. ;, ? The grand trunk railway, Canada, J» changed the guage from broad to narrow. Townsend and Co., bankers of New hm have failed for nearly three million dollars. The second match, to decideHhe sup* ity for long distance of breach aiMi-nui" loaders, resulted in favour of tne l»t«V Both Tilton and Moulton have -m indicted for malicious libel by the Bey m Beecher. ' ,_ mr i Mr Gordon Bennett, of the J« *Jj Herald, offers to pay one-fourtli « "» entire cost of a new Arctic expedition.-Thirty-nine medical students J»ve w» arrested at Buffalo as, resurrectionists. The commercial credit of New XorJtiis been disturbed by recent failnreS; . ■'■. , Mr Hepworth Dixon arrived at New -V* on October 2.